Cognitive complexity of software and its measurement

Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 226-235

  Wang, Yingxu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

BCS; Calibrated weights; Cognitive complexity; Cognitive functional size; Cognitive informatics; Cognitive weights; Psychological experiments; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

BCS; CALIBRATED WEIGHTS; COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY; COGNITIVE INFORMATICS; COGNITIVE WEIGHTS; FUNCTIONAL SIZE; PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 48049107135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COGINF.2006.365701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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